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Lighten up, Francis.
I've been there. Bluegrass used to get my back up. Not really the banjo's fault but it drew my ire, for a while. Then I heard Bela Fleck and thought, it isn't the banjo, it's the Bluegrass. Then I heard the Gourd's cover of Snoop Dogg's Gin N Juice, which isn't strictly speaking bluegrass, but gets pretty close, and the obligatory bluegrass song on each Phish album, and then I heard Hayseed Dixie's bluegrass covers of AC/DC and realized that it's like Yiddish - it just sounds irritating until you realize that there is something fundamentally amusing about it.
Now, emo banjo I would probably still hate, but I can't even imagine what that would sound like (grey grass?)
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